Verify the Electrical and Service-Connection Workflow

Freeze project facts

Record property type, suite or strata context, planned loads, proposed equipment and whether utility-owned work may be involved.

Verify contractor requirements

Use current Technical Safety BC sources for the legal name, licensing or qualification evidence and work scope.

Map permit and inspection

Ask who obtains permits, which work is inspected, dependencies, corrections and documents supplied at closeout.

Map BC Hydro steps

Separate application, design, customer work, meter or service work, scheduling and outage responsibilities.

Add City and building interfaces

Record structural penetrations, fire separations, suite, strata, EV and restoration questions that may trigger other review.

Maintain a dated register

Log authority, source, date, input supplied, answer, required document, dependency and owner.

Verify the electrical work route

Use current Technical Safety BC information to record contractor legal name, permit responsibility, inspection stages and required closeout. Keep verification dated and tied to the proposed scope rather than relying on advertising claims.

• Match names to current records
• Identify permit applicant
• Retain inspection documentation

Open a BC Hydro dependency log

Separate application, design review, customer construction, readiness evidence, outage, meter and service work. Record the utility reference and prerequisites, while treating scheduling and final requirements as project-specific until confirmed.

• Name customer-owned prerequisites
• Log utility correspondence
• Recheck after scope revisions

Coordinate building interfaces

Add City, strata, fire-separation, structural penetration, excavation, parking and restoration questions where the selected route touches them. Link every answer to the same capacity option and drawing revision to avoid mixing incompatible approval paths.

• Track common-property decisions
• Assign fire-stopping evidence
• Close every open dependency

Close the authority and utility dependency log

Maintain separate rows for contractor licence evidence, applicable permit and inspection, City or building interfaces, BC Hydro application and design, customer prerequisites, outage, meter or service work and final records. Technical Safety BC provides provincial electrical licence information, but its installation-permit guidance identifies Burnaby as a local permitting jurisdiction. The City’s residential trade-permit page says electrical installations in single-family and duplex dwellings require a Burnaby electrical permit; its permit directory separately identifies routes for residential, multi-family, commercial and industrial buildings. Record the property type and use the current City route that matches it. Each row needs project facts, source, checked date, application or permit reference, responsible party, prerequisite and next action. Keep contractor licensing distinct from the municipality’s permit issuance and inspection functions. BC Hydro design or service work remains a separate dependency when utility-owned equipment or supply must change. Attach correspondence to the correct drawing and calculation revision, and record when a response must be reconfirmed. For strata work, add the council decision and common-property conditions as a separate track. Conditional or preliminary responses stay open until written evidence closes them, and calculation, equipment or route changes trigger recheck. Before outage scheduling, confirm customer work, inspection readiness and utility prerequisites with the responsible parties. Add expiry, revision and resubmission dates so a changed scope never relies on superseded approval evidence. The completed log shows process ownership clearly without promising utility scheduling, permit acceptance, inspection outcome or energization, and prevents one authority’s answer from being misapplied to another part of the project.

• Verify current TSBC evidence
• Log BC Hydro references
• Separate municipal interfaces
• Track customer prerequisites
• Archive completion records